Trump’s Approval Ratings Hit All-Time Low: Gallup Poll

Donald Trump had a really bad day today, with all the news of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments, and then it got worse. The latest Gallup poll came out with some gut-wrenching news.

Within a mere 285 days, the president’s job approval rating dropped like a rock to 33 percent, which is the lowest since he took office. He had 34 percent approval rating at the end of August, but this is even worse. That means now only one in three Americans of voting age approve of how he is doing in his new career, and 62 percent give him a big thumbs down.

Someone who knows a lot about Donald Trump is Brian Klaas, author of The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy. Klaas is also a fellow at LSE Government, which is the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Klaas tweeted an interesting comparison between Donald Trump and his predecessors. The sitting president has fallen to a 33 percent approval rating within mere 285 days. Then, Klaas compared the number of days it took for President Ronald Reagan to reach that dramatically low number – never.

It took President George H.W. Bush 1,283 days to bottom out at 33 percent. His son, George W. Bush was in office for 1,933 days before reaching that magic number. President Bill Clinton never fell to that low percentage, and neither did President Barack Obama. Is there a pattern here?

The Gallup poll was not a fluke. The recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll came up with similar numbers. Just 38 percent of the interviewees said they approved of the job Trump has been doing. A full 58 percent of those interviewed disapproved of the president’s job performance.

The Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare after numerous attempts, leaving the GOP with no major legislation passed, so far. Trump has been working with Congressional Republicans on a tax reform bill, but these legislators laced it with non-starters, such as stripping 401k retirement plans and slashing both Medicare and Medicaid. What makes it worse, is the Republicans are using average American dollars to give bonuses to large corporations and the richest one- percenters.

This Gallup poll was conducted before news broke of Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicting Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the United States, Monday.

The poll collected data on the percentage of American voters who approve or disapprove of Donald Trump’s job as president. The pollsters interviewed approximately 1,500 voting-age adults in the country by telephone. The Gallup poll was based upon a three-day rolling average. The margin of error was ±3 percentage points.